Jill Watson, an AI Pioneer in Education, Turns 4 

Georgia Tech’s most well-known artificially intelligent teaching assistant, Jill Watson, turns 4 years old this January. The brainchild of Ashok Goel, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and launched at the start of 2016, the virtual TA was introduced into one of the courses for the then-fledgling Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program, now one of Georgia Tech’s largest graduate degree programs.